Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:02 AM, david gn...@hawaii.rr.com wrote: David Hucklesby wrote: On 12/20/10 3:40 PM, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. I would like to have the documents that form the odd sheets to have a footer where the even documents to have none. What you need are the @page rules; unfortunately they aren't support by most browsers. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html They have provisions for :left and :right pages, which do work in Opera. I haven't found any way to generate content using them yet though. Anyone know a) if that's possible b) the state of @page development? Tim __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 18:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos epana...@gmail.comwrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. [snip] If I use: div id=print-footer Using id=... to call the css and I only get the footer properly placed on the first page only. The rest of the pages do not have a footer. If I use div class=print-footer Using class=... to call the css I get the footer text placed under the end of the content on each page. Somehow it does not appear as a footer. How is your HTML organized? If it's one html file per physical page, the use of ID vs CLASS for css shouldn't matter (make sure if you use class you're adjusting your selector). If you're using one html file for all the odd pages you might try position:fixed for the footer. A fixed box will appear on each printed page. If all the pages are in a single file, I'm not aware of any syntax that can suppress the footer only for even pages but then I've never practised printing HTML. As others have suggested you might want to try generating a pdf instead. Mark __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Mark Richards m...@date.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 18:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos epana...@gmail.com wrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. [snip] If I use: div id=print-footer Using id=... to call the css and I only get the footer properly placed on the first page only. The rest of the pages do not have a footer. If I use div class=print-footer Using class=... to call the css I get the footer text placed under the end of the content on each page. Somehow it does not appear as a footer. I think your solution is in the PHP and not the CSS. You need the PHP to only add the footer div to odd pages. PHP can count (what you define as) pages, but CSS cannot. You could add a class to odd pages in which case CSS could be used to show or hide based on the presence of that class, but honestly, once you've done the logic to add the class, you might as well just be adding the entire div in question instead. Regardless, what you determine to be a single page will definitely not be a single page on every printer. You'll likely get reports of people getting that footer in very odd places. As soon as you start thinking printing, you should probably move to PDF. Unless you have the requisite amount of self loathing to tackle PHP+HTML+CSS+The Universe of Printers. I'd recommend that route. -Tim -- - tim.arn...@gmail.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
Thank you for the suggestions. I tried many variations of the html file. I tried creating one huge file and many, smaller in size, html files contained in one physical file. I will look closer into PDF, though. In terms of ID-ing each page, I tried that too since I create the html using php. I have a variable that counts the pages and I built the ID incorporating the counter variable. For now I am enclosing the data that needs to be in the page with the footer with a div class=print_report style=height:auto; min-height:240px; That way as the data changes the fake footer will be in the same position. I realize that this is not as nice as the css soution but it works. Evan On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Mark Richards m...@date.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 18:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos epana...@gmail.com wrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. [snip] If I use: div id=print-footer Using id=... to call the css and I only get the footer properly placed on the first page only. The rest of the pages do not have a footer. If I use div class=print-footer Using class=... to call the css I get the footer text placed under the end of the content on each page. Somehow it does not appear as a footer. How is your HTML organized? If it's one html file per physical page, the use of ID vs CLASS for css shouldn't matter (make sure if you use class you're adjusting your selector). If you're using one html file for all the odd pages you might try position:fixed for the footer. A fixed box will appear on each printed page. If all the pages are in a single file, I'm not aware of any syntax that can suppress the footer only for even pages but then I've never practised printing HTML. As others have suggested you might want to try generating a pdf instead. Mark -- Evan Panagiotopoulos __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
On 12/20/10 3:40 PM, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. I would like to have the documents that form the odd sheets to have a footer where the even documents to have none. [...] How do you do that? Unless you are designing for an Intranet with all paper sizes, printers, and browser print settings the same, I don't think that can be done, can it? A PDF might be the answer-- but not always. (Speaking as one who is having a terrible time printing off my U.K. passport application (A4) in California (US letter size.) :( ) Cordially, David -- __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only
David Hucklesby wrote: On 12/20/10 3:40 PM, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one sheet of paper. I would like to have the documents that form the odd sheets to have a footer where the even documents to have none. [...] How do you do that? Unless you are designing for an Intranet with all paper sizes, printers, and browser print settings the same, I don't think that can be done, can it? A PDF might be the answer-- but not always. Hmm, if your content was XML, you could use XSL-FO to automatically transform it into a formatted PDF. That might still suffer from size discrepancies between your page size and the visitor's page size, though. -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
